Improved socket for paint and other brushes



J. W. DAVIS.

Socket for Paint and other Brushes.

Patented Jan. 5, 1864.

M m M hogmphar. Wiihingiofl n c UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES WV. DAVIS, OF \VASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.

IMPROVED SOCKET FOR PAINT AND OTHER BRUSHES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 41,060, dated January 5, 1801.

To all whom it may concern.-

[ plication of the socket or tube are the receiv- Be it known that I, JAMES W. DAVIS, ot'the I ing the drip of the brush, thereby preventeity and county ofWVashington, in the District of Columbia, have invented a new and Improved Brush; and I hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon.

'iue nature of my invention consists in the application of a tube or socket to the brushes used by painters and whitewashers for the purpose of preventing the drip of the brush, the tube or socket receiving any drip from the brush.

Figure 1 represents a side view of the common whitewash brush with the socket attached; Fig. 2, an end view of the same; Fig. 3, the top. Fig. 4 represents the common painters brush with socket attached; Fig. 5, the flange.

"he advantages to be derived from the aping the paint or whitewash from dropping, as is usual, and soiling the floor or carpet-very common and almost unavoidable as heretofore used. Fig. 5 the top.

a is the flange attached to the inside of the socket or tube b, to hold the drip when the brush is laid down, and to'prevent its'escape when thebrush is dipped into the pot or bucke and being raised up.

Having thus fully described my invention, I

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The combination of the socket b and flange a with brushes for painting, frescoing, and whitewashing, substantially as specified.

JAMES W. DAVIS.

WVitnesses:

J. H. MERRILL, EDM. F. BROWN. 

